acid7711

Hello. I'm VERY new to the Mustang world, but not to the car world in general. I just bought the car 2 days ago, and lastnight I was driving and the speedometer and odometer just up and stopped working. I did some searches, and came up with pushing the button many times. This did nothing. I ended up bringing it to a shop and they put it up on the lift. They checked the speedometer cable and said that it was fine, and checked the speed sensor (I think that's what it was? it was the part that the speedometer cable plugged into). They said that part was fine as well. He took a mirror and took a peak into the trans and said "There's your problem." He said that there should be a little plastic gear in there that turns the thing that the speedometer cable was plugged into. He said it looks like it broke apart because it's not in there anymore. He said there's a port on the back of the trans to access it, but he doesn't do transmissions. I called around, they want like minimum $200 labor to fix this little plastic gear.

Is this something I can get and fix myself for pretty cheap? If anyone has a how to on this, I'm sure I could do it myself. If I pull off that cover, is trans fluid going to pour out? Thanks in advance.

Btw: Forgot to mention, this is a 5-speed trans.

cammedlx

You will have to remove the whole trans just to replace the little gear,and it does require you to tear down the transmissoin just to acces it,since there is no "port" to replace it...if it is your first time for doing something like this,then i recommend to turn off the phone and buy a case......and good luck.

86HOGT

You mean the $6 gear that goes onto the end of the speedometer gear that takes five minutes to replace?

silver91gt

I think he is talking about the worm gear inside the tranny that turns the speedo gear.

acid7711

Yeah, I think that's what it is. Crap. I was really hoping that this wasn't going to be a couple hundred dollers fix. Sounds like it is.

stanglx2002

have you pulled out the speedo gear just to make sure its not the problem

FoxGT

Not at all. I fixed mine on two different transmissions. The gear was $16 from ford + the cost of transmission fluid. The total was around $25 if I recall correctly. & it's very easy to do.

Actully I might be able to make a tutorial even. I think I'm getting ready to do my 7th transmission swap. [8D] I really need to make up my mind on which transmission I want.

acid7711

Uhm....If I remeber correctly, there was a box kinda thing that the guy pulled off the trans with one screw that the speedometer cable was attached to. I don't know what that was? There was a gear on the end of that if I remeber correctly. He said both that and the cable were good. He took a mirror and looked inside the hole where that thing was and said there's no gear in there where there should be one.


That would be great! However, how soon do you think you could do this? This is my only car now, and I have about 5 days left until I have to head back to school.

FoxGT

Hmmm. I'm not exactly sure when I'm going to do it. Depends on when my friend comes to get his transmission. Supposed to be sometime this week. I can walk you through it if you like.

acid7711

Yeah, if you could, that would be a great help. I dunknow if you could list the steps involved or somethin. Either here or where-ever.